Is there an explainer why other users must subsidize profiteering gluttons

If these people had lobbied hard for governments to tax them and distribute universal basic income as a rising share of productivity, and UBI already existed now along with national healthcare to fully decouple survival from employment, audiences would be responding differently to their speeches.

These kids are all right.

I have been very good lately and I deserve a remake of Jason and the Argonauts starring Jason Mantzoukas

Trump bought up to $5 million in NVIDIA stock in February. This week, he flew the NVIDIA CEO to Beijing on Air Force One. On day one of the trip, his administration approved NVIDIA chip sales to 10 Chinese companies. 🧵

Behind The Green Door

Grogu Plays Itself

Good button, NPR.

Ross Barkan. "In addition to being a contributor to New York magazine, he also writes for Crain's New York, The New York Times and other publications."

Lawsuits in California federal and state court are unearthing documents embarrassing to tech companies — and may be a tipping point into federal regulation.

MAAAAAGE BIDEN!!

Ah, Disney-Skydance-Newscorp-Versant-Comcast!

Do you think the CEO of Citadel or any big company is actually looking at any work, let alone doing any? Do you think they have any idea what they’re doing every day? Or is it that they played with a chatbot and went “wow” and have VPs that feed them bullet points of metrics they sometimes read?

Ever notice how these guys never say anything specific? Or give an outcome resulting from this alleged time saving? How much actual work do you think Ken Griffin does every week? How much insight does he have? It’s the same shit as with remote work but replacing “serendipity” with the speed of AI

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Jon Ossoff: "RFKjr is attempting to demolish Americans' public health. We, in Georgia, have always been proud to host the CDC. It's never been a partisan thing. What we've seen is an intentional effort to destroy this once preeminent agency. This puts our country and the world at risk."

us administration official #1: “how are we gonna justify the collective punishment of 10 million people?” us administration official #2: “i have the perfect idea”

The fact that the government chooses to leak this to you is an implicit insult although you would have to be self aware to pick up on that so no worries.

noted profile in cowardice wants his old colleagues to stand up to the guy he kowtowed to back when his choices actually mattered www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

What is this comparison 😂 come on.

Are we saying that fewer teenagers getting pregnant is... bad?

Detainees are telling us they are being treated brutally. Trump’s admin is trying to stop us from seeing it. And GEO Group has a 15yr $1B contract to run Delaney Hall. Detainees took a huge risk to tell us what’s happening behind closed doors. We must listen and take action now.

Reworking my "AI is awesome and you should unquestionably embrace it" graduation speech after some feedback

I check all my citations when writing. I check them again during the copy edit, and same when copy editing anyone else's work. I track down quoted citations to check their accuracy in the secondary source. I check translations. It's respect for my readers & for the broad field of knowledge.

“Among the most corrupt acts in American political history” “A stunningly corrupt attempt for the president to take taxpayer money and put it in his pocket” “Part of a pattern where Trump is violating the basic separation of powers"

Bright minds with winning personalities, mm

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The empty husk of Chicago’s former Gold Coast Tesla dealership is impressive.

Think about all those Cubans.

While emperor Putin reigns in his bunker, the throne of Russian emperors was captured in St Petersburg, in the Hermitage museum. The man had to be dethroned by Russian guards. And so it begins?...

Some on the far-left have deep concerns about AOC’s tendency to inspire and do good.

Did we ever find out what the story was with the pink bubble wand in Disneyland?

Picking off sailors on the sea no longer sates the bloodlust

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

“Ninety million people must be collectively punished, even killed, before I am resoundingly voted out of office and retire to the bar”

“NYU! NYU! NYU!”

CRASH debuted at Cannes 30 years ago today + gave us this most perfect Spader moment. youtu.be/FWQEFhDhoKE?...

Seems blasphemous.

No one had a platform of open borders. No one.

it’s honestly so embarrassing that we have to talk about trump’s ballroom in a serious way. someone in his circle didn’t immediately tell him it was the dumbest fucking idea in the whole world and now it’s become our mortifying problem. clown shit.

These people are terrified. They know they’ve pushed too far too fast and are going to face a huge backlash from voters. So they’re trying to stop people from voting.

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200 years from now, William Shatner and Keith Richards will pair up for a buddy film. Watch. You'll see.

Fire and ‘sheer volume’: how Britain’s 6m-vape problem is putting recycling under strain

Large-scale Ukraine drone strike kills at least 4 in Russia

Colbert throwing furniture off the studio roof and smashing the CBS logo was exactly the cathartic moment I needed. 💔

More people care about gas prices than cared about Jan 6th.